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08 May 2016

FIR filed against Ex. CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda in National Herald Case
The Haryana state vigilance bureau registered an FIR against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for his alleged involvement in the National Herald case.

As per reports, a case under sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by a public servant), 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 23 of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against Hooda.

Hooda, along four IAS officers, allegedly re-allotted a plot in Sector 6 of Panchkula to the Congress-linked Associated Journals Limited (AJL), owner of National Herald.

AJL is the parent company of National Herald, the now defunct mouthpiece of the Congress Party.

The FIR (No. 3 of 2016) has been registered in the State Vigilance Bureau (SVB) Police Station, Panchkula, against officials of AJL, the then chairman (Hooda himself) of the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), the then chief administrator of HUDA and others, under Sections 409, 420, 120B of the Indian Penal Code along with Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988.

As per media reports The institutional site No C-17, Sector 6, Panchkula measuring 3,500 square metres, was first allotted to AJL on 24 August 1982 for the purpose of publishing a newspaper but had to be taken back by the state government when AJL failed to construct even after 10 years of possession.

Construction of the plot resumed in year 1996 and later illegally re-allotted in 2005 by Hooda